Re: BUG #7750: pid file conflict in RedHat

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:28:40PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 06:41:29PM +0000, postgres(at)tbruce(dot)com wrote:
> >> In line 238 of the rpm based init.d script, the pid file is called
> >> specifically with a qualified path ("status -p
> >> /var/run/postmaster-9.1.pid"), even though line 70 specifies a variable to
> >> point to the pid file (pidfile="/var/run/postmaster-9.1.pid").
> >>
> >> This is with rpm version of postgres 9.1.4 and 9.1.6 (we haven't tested
> >> 9.1.7 at this time).
>
> > I think you need to report this to Red Hat; we didn't create that file.
>
> Red Hat didn't either. This report is evidently about the PGDG RPMs.

Yes, I have found it is a PGDG RPM and forwarded it to Devrim.

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